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Children's literature on the move : nations, translations, migrations /

Contributor(s): Maguire, Nora [editor.] | Rodgers, Beth [editor.].
Series: Publisher: Dublin, Ireland : Four Courts Press, 2013Description: 167 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781846824128(hardcover); 9781846824128:; 1846824125(hardcover).Subject(s): Children's literature -- History and criticism | National characteristics in literature | Emigration and immigration in literatureDDC classification: 808.899282
Contents:
Introduction : nations, translations, migrations / Nora Maguire & Beth Rodgers -- Part One : Constructing nations and nationhood. Creating a nation from scratch : nationalism and nationhood in Çocuk children's periodical in Turkey, 1936-9 / Deniz Arzuk. Shared songs, secret codes and Estonian national identity / Mari Niitra. Shakespeare's history plays and nationhood in children's literature and education / Kate Harvey -- Part Two : Irish childhoods : past and present, at home and abroad. The hunt for 'Pangur Ban' / Celia Keenan. Tarts and treacle, roast potatoes and buttermilk : domestication in Irish-language translations of children's literature / Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn. 'A homesick love' : emigrant echoes of maternal love in the novels of Siobhan Dowd / Valerie Coghlan. Irish-Canadian children's literature and Canadian national identity : Caroline Pignat and James Heneghan / Clíona Ó Gallchoir -- Part Three : Contemporary children's literature: challenging discourses of nation. Kiffe kiffe demain: strategies of empowerment in the novels of Faïza Guène / Ruth Scales. 'Kids and fish have no voice'? Recent children's literature about the People's Republic of Poland as a platform for participatory historical culture / Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak. English that for me! Publishing children's books in translation / Siobhán Parkinson.
Summary: Traversing a variety of places - real and imagined, past and present, new and as old as time - 'Children's Literature on the Move' traces how children's books have helped both to create national identity and to resist it, empowering readers young and old with the ability to make meaning from physical, political and emotional upheaval.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : nations, translations, migrations / Nora Maguire & Beth Rodgers -- Part One : Constructing nations and nationhood. Creating a nation from scratch : nationalism and nationhood in Çocuk children's periodical in Turkey, 1936-9 / Deniz Arzuk. Shared songs, secret codes and Estonian national identity / Mari Niitra. Shakespeare's history plays and nationhood in children's literature and education / Kate Harvey -- Part Two : Irish childhoods : past and present, at home and abroad. The hunt for 'Pangur Ban' / Celia Keenan. Tarts and treacle, roast potatoes and buttermilk : domestication in Irish-language translations of children's literature / Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn. 'A homesick love' : emigrant echoes of maternal love in the novels of Siobhan Dowd / Valerie Coghlan. Irish-Canadian children's literature and Canadian national identity : Caroline Pignat and James Heneghan / Clíona Ó Gallchoir -- Part Three : Contemporary children's literature: challenging discourses of nation. Kiffe kiffe demain: strategies of empowerment in the novels of Faïza Guène / Ruth Scales. 'Kids and fish have no voice'? Recent children's literature about the People's Republic of Poland as a platform for participatory historical culture / Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak. English that for me! Publishing children's books in translation / Siobhán Parkinson.

Traversing a variety of places - real and imagined, past and present, new and as old as time - 'Children's Literature on the Move' traces how children's books have helped both to create national identity and to resist it, empowering readers young and old with the ability to make meaning from physical, political and emotional upheaval.

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